UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Chikadze

The official Tapology discussion thread for the event!

good fight for sure. co main should have been royval vs bontorin but the ufc does a terrible job in bout orders for fight nights imo. I lost a lot of interest in this card because of the fights that got cancelled but its still an above average card nonetheless

I fell bad for Raoni tbh, I swear the UFC match Raoni up with killer for little reward, Raoni derseve a big fight like 2-3 fight before, Valluv, Guiterez and Nurmagomov are all good bamtamweight that have no alot of power to go up in ranking , Also I didn't agree with the Valliev Decsion, Even though Valliev did more, Raoni did more damage with the harder punchs, Damage> ******** vollume

I think if Raoni and O'Malley swap opponent, O'Malley will lose a few time and be forgeton about, And Raoni be a top 10 guy now, But I guess the UFC hype machine, Raoni is a 34 battamweight who no one care about, And O"Malley is a 26 year tik tok star

Definitely going to lay  off any parlays now Barcelos is off. Wasn't even really sure who to parlay him with was probably just to finish off what was supposed to be him and Simon last card.

 With him and KR gone this might be the most evenly lined card betting odds wise in a while. Three biggest favs are giga -230, benitez -185, and chookagian -170. Then like most of the others are pick ems. 

I heavily disagree with that. I feel like they would both beat each others opponents except Sean probably wouldn't beat Valiev either. Barcelos has been given multiple top 15 guys (granted most weren't in the top 15 when offered) but the fights Never came to fruition. Also those three opponents you mentioned are all top 20-30 BWs so wins over them definitely warrant a spot up in rankings. Raoni isn't ranked because he lost the Valiev fight and has been super unfortunate with his fights; I mean the dude has had 8 cancelled fights in the ufc. Bad luck is the reason he isn't ranked not favoritism. hes been offered Cody stamann, merab, and assuncao but none of those fights happened.

* Edited at 01.04.2022, 3:57 PM ET *

Damn Buckley is off too. ****s sake. Wonder why Al Hassan pulled out. I hope someone steps in for em. 

* Edited at 01.04.2022, 9:56 PM ET *

Wasn’t said why but ufc is gonna reschedule the fight 

Damn, card was stacked. Now it's just a decent card. 

Well , they made Muslim and Michel the comain. Way more exciting than any female fight. 

* Edited at 01.04.2022, 10:15 PM ET *

Yeah card really not that good now that three of the best fights got canceled. It’s whatever tho 

this card is slowly becoming a **** show. 2 more weeks to go so plenty of time for at least 4 more fight cancellations. Bet we end up with Maia Vs Chookagian as the co-main. After waiting for a whole month we are gonna get a pile of dog poo first up. 2022 looks like another crap year in the making.

I guarantee the fights that do not get cancelled are the Maia/Chookagian, Demopoulos/Gomez, Sherman/Collier and the Pickett/Holmes fights. The MMA gods are *******s.

@AyyLmaonnaise or any user on here, is there a way to check which users on here have really high percentages of successful pick rates for the UFC for the past 12 months?

@dep there is no way to filter users pick percentages by card. It would be interesting to see and would expose a lot of peoples records as the horribly inflated cherry-picked ******** they are. Basically you can assume that anybody on this forum with a fancy belt and a pick percentage of over 67-68% ( which is extremely high-accuracy) got there by picking huge money line favourites in squash matches across hundreds of partially picked cards, like fisty, who I routinely beat every UFC event, which probably hurts him because it basically destroys the false sense of achievement he cultivates by boosting his stats on Tapology. I'd feel bad about it, but it's one of the saddest and most pathetic things I've ever seen.

The only honest UFC-only record I am aware of on this site is Gregory's. I tried to do it with this account, but I haven't been able to resist picking flagship boxing events and Bellator occasionally. I don't know how Greg does it TBH, his discipline is ******* amazing. Although I suppose he has an alt he picks non-UFC stuff on.

Basically, the only way to separate the wheat from the chaff is to pay attention to how well people do card-to-card by logging into tap while UFC is happening live.

I'm better than my comment history would lead people to believe, but I doubt I'd make it higher than the top 25-30% of pickers on Tap.

As I've said hundreds of times, picking the favourite every card will get you 68% thereabouts. Nobody really beats the house.

* Edited at 01.05.2022, 4:36 AM ET *

Just go onto each users page and look at their picks for each event. You can click on their Picks link and see an event by event breakdown including the pick results for each UFC event. 

I personally only pick UFC/Bellator/DWCS and Boxing events but a lot of people pick on a lot of weird and wonderful events from One/Rizin matches to obscure regional shows in Europe/Africa. 

So like Baldric says, mainly check on ppls UFC records - that's the best barometer of how good they are likely to be with other UFC cards.

Thank you @Baldric and @RustyTennakoon.  Gregory has a great pick history, I love the fact that he mainly chooses UFC/Bellator.  63.3 percent success rate mainly choosing UFC/Bellator is incredible!  Only thing he hasn't made any predictions since the Smith and Spann card lol

* Edited at 01.05.2022, 5:20 AM ET *

maybe he made so much money with his bets that he retired :D

Just saw that this event went from 15 to 12 fights.  i hope that is all that is lost by the time it starts.

With the luck that we have there will probably be like 3 more cancellations. I’m looking forward to a bunch of the cards but they’re starting this year off terribly with fights 

Although we did get spoiled with the last three months so that’s something to take into account. Mma fans too spoiled lol

Ugh...it's hard to get excited about fight cards anymore. All the fights I look forward to get called off. 
You aren't safe, even after the weigh-ins you have to hold your breath lol
This card still has some solid fights (especially the top 3), but if it loses anymore it gets into danger territory.